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  • in reply to: Breakaway One 3.30.93 Released #17031
    Milky
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    Are you using HE-AAC or AAC? HE-AAC is optimised for low bitrates (up to 160 kbps), so I’m not even sure that 48 kHz is relevant.

    If you are using AAC, why not just select 48 kHz from the drop-down box?

    in reply to: Configuration dump #17023
    Milky
    Keymaster

    A configuration dump is typically used if you need to send information to CEA in response to a bug, or to apply for a licence.

    There is also an option to save your entire configuration and setup to a zipped file. this can be imported to set up a fresh install rather than having to go through every setting manually.

    in reply to: Standby Members – Major Announcement! #17014
    Milky
    Keymaster

    There will be a definite announcement within the next 12 hours😉

    in reply to: Custom Encoder CLI Examples #16997
    Milky
    Keymaster

    To help explain the rather unusual syntax of the command line, I have snipped an image from the video, so that you can see it graphically.

    Click the link to view.
    https://ceaforum.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-03-01-084520-1.jpg

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Milky.
    in reply to: Now Is Your Chance To Add To The Breakaway One Wish/Bug List #16982
    Milky
    Keymaster

    Please tell your friend 😂 that I truly don’t know the rollout timeline, nor testing plans at this stage.

    in reply to: Now Is Your Chance To Add To The Breakaway One Wish/Bug List #16980
    Milky
    Keymaster

    Yes, I copied and pasted all requests into a spreadsheet and now the development team are prioritising them all.

    in reply to: Now Is Your Chance To Add To The Breakaway One Wish/Bug List #16977
    Milky
    Keymaster

    I have included that as it was requested by another member.

    Watch this space, as I know that there has been some recent movement in the development arena.

    No hints, no timelines.

    in reply to: Multipath Mitigation #16966
    Milky
    Keymaster

    FM multipath causes signal interference due to the receiver receiving the signal from multiple paths.

    It’s not possible to completely fix it in software, but what exacerbates the problem is stereo separation, due to it increasing the bandwidth of the FM carrier, and we can control that in software.

    The Multipath Mitigation control will reduce stereo separation of only frequencies with extreme stereo separation, with very high resolution (something like 1000 frequency bands), meaning an almost imperceptible, usually completely imperceptible reduction in overall stereo width, while tightly controlling the final RF bandwidth and reducing the risk of multipath-induced distortion. It doesn’t eliminate it though, we can only do so much, but it’s probably a worthwhile setting to keep on for most stations.

    Low, Medium, High simply adjusts the aggressiveness with which it is applied.

    Does it affect the audio quality? Almost imperceptibly in areas where signal strength is good, but definitely provides an improvement in areas where the signal may arrive at the receiver via multiple paths.

    in reply to: Now Is Your Chance To Add To The Breakaway One Wish/Bug List #16962
    Milky
    Keymaster

    Forwarded!

    in reply to: Now Is Your Chance To Add To The Breakaway One Wish/Bug List #16959
    Milky
    Keymaster

    All preceding posts have been copied and passed on. Thank you for your input.’

    Milky
    Keymaster

    MrKlorox. Noted and forwarded.

    in reply to: Now Is Your Chance To Add To The Breakaway One Wish/Bug List #16946
    Milky
    Keymaster

    timmywa and MrKlorox. Noted and forwarded.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 12 months ago by Milky.
    in reply to: MPX and stereo out of phase #16938
    Milky
    Keymaster

    I am truly sorry that you have had such a bad experience using Breakaway One. Of the many, many copies sold around the world and working in real-life situations (including my two stations), no-one has come across such a situation as you describe, and that’s what makes it so hard to resolve.

    It seems to be something unique to your particular hardware/software combination, and even then, it seems to have evolved, because it was working on your original hardware as I understand it, so only started to show this unusual behaviour when the equipment was replaced. This immediately points to something new in the hardware configuration that is contributing to the problem. Although the devices involved are ostensibly the same, we have no way of knowing if the actual componentry or device driver is identical.
    For example, I have two “identical” dashcams in my motor vehicles, both from the same manufacturer, and with the same software revision, yet one behaves differently from the other.

    Maybe the chipset that Leif used and recommended to you (and was obviously in the original configuration as well) has been superseded. Maybe an OS update on the PC you are using has replaced the original device driver with something generic. You need to go through each part of the broadcast chain to eliminate these sorts of possibilities.

    As an aside regarding the forum software, there was some reason why Keith chose to drop the original forum software in favour of this system. I don’t know if it was just a great sales pitch, or whether there were licencing issues. Sadly, we will never know, but we must work with the tools we have been given.

    in reply to: MPX and stereo out of phase #16925
    Milky
    Keymaster

    @MrKlorox I give every query on this forum my utmost attention. In fact, this one query from In2beats has been the subject of ten emails between myself, John Edwards and Leif.

    This is an excerpt, directly from Leif.

    “I haven’t made any specific copy for anyone though (I could never maintain that in the long run), if I add a feature and send someone a new version, it’ll be in every official build from that point on.

    There’s no RDS phase adjustment, because it’s software generated in sync. There is an RDS Injection Level control. There’s no way for it to drift though, RDS and stereo and pilot are generated together, hard locked.”

    in reply to: MPX and stereo out of phase #16922
    Milky
    Keymaster

    I have an email response, directly from Leif that, if he had made an adjustment to the program to allow you to adjust the “pilot level setting”, it would be included in ALL subsequent releases of the software.
    Can you imagine how hard it would be to support changes to satisfy the whims of every person’s perceived requirements? Of course, very quickly, it would become a support nightmare, which is why, I am confident that the modification is either in the current stable release, or it may have come to you via means that shouldn’t be talked about on this forum.

    Why has it taken you so long to respond, and why are we even talking about Stereo Tool? Are you sure you are on the right forum?

    • This reply was modified 2 years ago by Milky.
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